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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you are going. That is family values.

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they did not have that rule when Jesus was born.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

It is the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We are the mothers, we are the wives, we are the grandmothers, we are the big sisters, we are the little sisters, we are the daughters. You know it is true, do not you? You are the ones who always have to do a little more.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing Maria from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

My mother was a personal friend of God. They had ongoing conversations.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Of all the roles I have played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Mothers do not let your daughters grow up to be models unless you are present.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one own Trojan horse.

Mommy smoked but she did not want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.